A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

plaster Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 5 4.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1510 3 1 0 1 0
Number of authors10 6 2 1 1

Occurrences of plaster in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Tae plaster yon Nasties at Jerry Jalaw." on page 97

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
then Un going to cut off your plaster to see how your leg is healin on page 85
textbook as he cuts open the plaster. The cold air is refreshin. on page 86

4 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
There was a layer of plaster dust all ower, but the flat h
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
up an doon stairs wae bags ay plaster an sheets ay gyprock, sweat p
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
She walks oot. There’s a plaster ower the vein she’s taken t
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Means, "Result in Plaster".
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
n. She peeled back paint then plaster, maist ae it scatterin oan th
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Tae scrape (an nae blaad the plaster) on page 15

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
wellies, wi buckets fu o wet plaster that wid tak moulds o cat-lik
burgh remarked upon seein the plaster moulds, that the evidence sup
2 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A broken leg? Three months in plaster? Yes, that's a quite severe d on page 75

1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
’ me as if ahm lookinÂ’ fir a plaster or twa relievinÂ’ those issue (2021) twitter link